DX10: Anno 1404 - Dawn of Discovery

I have been playing this excellent RTS, ever since the first Anno in the series was launched many years ago. Heck, I had a ton of fun with the original game series like Anno 1602 and 1701. If you're unfamiliar with the Anno series of games, they have all been (1404 is the 3rd sequel) colony-builders that take place in vast archipelagos filled with pirates, natives, treasures, and rival colonies. Typically, players start with a single ship packed with essential goods with which they colonize a single island, and then need to expand their realm.

Anno 1404 is using a DX10 code path, brushing up and speeding up things here and there while pertaining really nice image quality. We have roughly 50 reference cards in this chart available for you.

For our test with Anno 1404 we:

enable everything

enable the highest possible image quality settings.

DirectX 10 mode

4x Anti-Aliasing enabled.

Use campaign build mode and have built three islands with extensive sizes cities.

In the high-end segment we are slowly running into CPU limitation, that is the state that the GPU can render more, yet has to wait on the CPU to present its data.

VGA Charts Summer 2012So then, the Guru3D VGA Charts for Summer 2012 are here. It's early June and most DX11 graphics cards from both AMD and NVIDIA have been released. Yes it's about time for another massive update to the charts. Some charts have up-to sixty graphics cards slash combinations embedded. All these cards have been tested on the very same PC with the very same OS.

VGA Charts Spring 2011So then, the Guru3D VGA Charts for Spring and Summer 2011 are here. It's then end of April and most DX11 graphics cards from both AMD and NVIDIA have been released. Yes it's about time for another massive update to the charts. Some charts have up-to sixty graphics cards slash combinations embedded. All these cards have been tested on the very same PC with the very same OS.

VGA Charts December 2009The VGA charts will show you the baseline performance of products we have tested, and we'll add future results over time. This is revision December 2009

VGA Charts December 2008The VGA charts will show you the baseline performance of products we have tested, and we'll add future results over time. This is revision December 2008